Volume 1, Number 7
The Crindau Pigeon Match, a sturgeon caught in the Usk, an automatic stamp machine installed in Maindee, the noisy hot cross bun-boys, and Cambrian Road being built.
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Volume 1, Number 6
Vintage W.H. Smith adverts, stealing swedes, the Caerleon Leek, a ball at the King’s Head Inn, two wretched urchins and the 'one of handsomest smacks' ever to have launched in Newport.
Volume 1, Number 5
Lazy people at the Free Library, a muddy Stow Hill, the Wild West Show digging up Shaftesbury Park, Caerleon protesting at busy buses and what’s on at the cinema in wartime.
Volume 1, Number 4
Twelfth Night festivities and horse racing at Tredegar Park, the price of making a phone call and parents being advised to give their criminal son a ‘thrashing’.
Volume 1, Number 3
Lady Tredegar hands out blankets to the poor, the new St Mark’s Church on Gold Tops is announced and a man is found in the mud of the river Usk with a cask of beer.
Volume 1, Number 2
A 50 mile cycling race, pirated music, a new lighting scheme proposed for Caerleon and new branch post office on Watchhouse Parade.